Tree."--Early
Efforts in Drawing brought to the notice of Flaxman.--Apprenticed to
Whittle, an Eccentric Medical Man.--Transfer of Leech's
Indentures.--Early Work.--Applies to Illustrate "Pickwick."--Style not
Matured till 1840.--An Attack on Dickens.--Attack on "Phiz."--Attack
on D'Israeli.--"Bentley's Miscellany."--Joins _Punch_.--Marriage.--The
"Right-hand Man in Punch's Cabinet."--"Illuminated
Magazine."--Portraits of Leech in _Punch_.--Douglas Jerrold and Albert
Smith.--Douglas Jerrold and A Beckett.--Leech at a Fancy Ball.--Albert
Smith and the Wide-awake Innkeepers at Chamounix.--George Cruikshank
Borrowing from Leech.--Influence of Cruikshank on Leech.--The Two
Compared.--Abhorrence of Frenchmen.--Mistake in "The Battle of Life."
_pp._ 277-293.

CHAPTER XIV.

John Leech's _Punch_ Cartoons.--The "Albert" Hat.--O'Connell.--Sir
James Graham.--"Peel's Dirty Little Boy."--"How do you Like the New
Whig?"--"The Premier's Fix."--"The Railway Juggernaut."--Between Free
Trade and Protection Sir Robert Peel falls through.--"Dombey and
Son."--Lord Brougham "in order."--Smithfield.--Louis Philippe.--The
Year of Unrest, 1848.--French Expedition to Rome.--"A Bright
Idea."--General Haynau and Barclay & Perkins' Draymen.--"Joe"
Hume.--The "Papal Aggression" Cartoons.--"The Boy who Chalked up 'No
Popery' and then Ran Away."--Great Exhibition of 1851.--The _Coup
d'etat_.--The Peace Society.--"The Old 'Un and the Young 'Un."--War
with Russia.--Evils of the Purchase System.--Generals _Janvier_ and
_Fevrier_.--"The Return from Vienna."--Incapacity of English
Generals.--"Urgent Private Affairs."--"Staying Proceedings."--The
Royal Levees.--The French Colonels.--"Religion _a la mode_."--Fete at
Cremorne.--Plots against the French Emperor, and their
Consequences.--"Invasion of French Light Wines."
_pp._ 294-314.

CHAPTER XV.

Exhibition of Leech's "Sketches in Oil" at the Egyptian Hall in
1862.--What Thackeray said of them.--Gradual Decrease in the Numbers
of his Cartoons for _Punch_.--Overwork.--Goes to the Continent with
Mark Lemon in 1862.--"A day at Biarritz."--Returns with no
Benefit.--Leech and Thackeray at Evans's in December, 1863.--Thackeray
and Leech at Charterhouse on "Founder's Day."--Thackeray at the
Wednesday _Punch_ Dinner, 15th of December, 1863.--Death of
Thackeray.--Death of Mr. R. W. Surtees.--The _Punch_ Council
Dinners.-